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The purpose of this assignment it to analyze a merger target for operational and organizational synergies and to provide a high$-$level roadmap discussing your assessment.

Given your present competitive market and financial positioning in the MEGA simulation and your assessment of the data you have for the merger target's competitive market and financial position, write a paper of $1,000$ words that addresses the following:

Given the option, would you pursue an equity or a nonequity merger? Provide the data and your reasoning to support this assessment.

How would this merger impact your financial statements? Be specific by identifying at least two important income statement and two balance sheet line items and project, with your reasoning, the estimated impact on each.

How would this merger change your team's corporate strategy? Using terminology from the strategy guide and your independent and cited research, how will this strategy shift facilitate a successful merger?